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Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne’s 19th-century novel

  • Written by Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Assistant Professor of English, Illinois Wesleyan University
imageThe 'Earthset' photo from the Artemis II crew's lunar flyby in April 2026. NASA

With the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission on April 1, 2026, human beings have finally returned to the Moon for the first time in 50 years – since the age of Apollo.

When Apollo 11 first landed on the lunar surface, the astronauts portrayed their...

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